Band-wheel regulator.



No. 863,055. PATBNTED AUG. 13, 1907.

G. DIEHL.

BAND WHEEL REGULATOR.

APPLICATION PILED'SEPT. 8, 1905. RENEWED JUNE 10, 1907.

GEORGE DIEHL, F BAXTEIL IOWA.

BAND-WE EEL REG-ULATGR.

st. senses.

Application filed geptembor transmitted to emachine by the intermittent explosive lorce of a gas engine as required to prevent the jarring and concussion incident to motions of machinery not being uniform in speed.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements and. sub-combine.- tions as hereinafter set forth, pointed outin my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which 1-.

Figure 1 is a s'ideview or n flanged band wheeland a loose hub adapted to serve ass. memoer of a friction clutch. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of 1 and shows the hnb'fixed to 2. driving shaft, the band wheel loose on the hub and a spring-actuated clutch member on the shaft and in engagement with the taperlllg end of the hub that serves as a clutch member.

The numeral is the rim and 12 the web ol' a wheel that may very in site, asdesired. It has lugs 13 and l-l that extend radially inward and they are in alinenrcnt with each other.

Xhub 15 extends through the aperture in the center of the web 12 of the wheel and has a tapering end adapted toserve as a member of a friction clutch and is fixed on a. rotary driving shaft 16 adapted to be con necterl with a gas engine The hub has integral bars 17 and 18 that extend radially and are arljustebly connected with the lugs 13 and 14 that project inward from the rim 10 of the band wheel by curved spring supports 19 and 20 that are fixed in apertures in the lugs by nuts on their screw ends HSSllOWll in Fig. 1, or in any suitable way. The free ends or" spring supports extend through apertures in the bars 17 and 18 and coil springs 21 on the supports are interposed between thc'lugs on the rim of the Wheel and the bars extending from the hub as required to serve as cushions between the hub and the wheel.

A second clutch member 22 on the end of a springactuated sleeve 23 placed loosely on the shaft 16 to' slide longitudinally thereon engages the cone-shaped clutch member 24 on the end of the hub as required to transfer the intermittent rotary motion of the shaft Specification of Letters Patent. 8, 1905, Serial No. 277,613. Renewed Juno 1.0,1907. Serial1lo.878,28ll.

lts end and bars extending radially and 21 hand W Patented Aug. 13, 193'?! and the hub to the band wheel to produce a uniform motion of the wheel so that when the band wheel is connected with an extraneous machine, by means of a belt in a common way, to import uniform motion to the extraneous machine.

i A collar 25 is fixed on the shaft is and a coil spring 26 interposed between the collar and the end of the sleeve 23 as required to press the'clutch members and 24 in engagement.

The sleeve 23 has different diameters adapting it to be used as pulleys in place of the bend wheel for trans mitting motion from the shaft to ext raucous nmchines at different rates of speed.

It is obvious the spring-actuated friction clutch also aids in maintaining a uniform motion of the llillld wheel by restricting the irregular motions of the hub and shafts.

It is also obvious the springs carried by the wheel and the spring and sleeve and. clutch members slidablc on the shaft coact in regulating the speed of the wheel and shaft.

Having thus set forth the pin-pose of my invention and the construction and function of each element end subcombination the practical operation and utility" thereof will be understood by persons familiar wirli the art to which it pertains.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:'

1. In a band wheel regulator, a rotatable shaft, a wheel consisting of a rim and. a web luiving'nn aperture in the center of the Web and lugs integral with th rim and Wll: extending rstlin'lly inwards l the rim and in ulinemcni with each other placed loosely on a hub, n huh provlalcrl with bars extending radially nurl a cone-shaped clu member integral with'the hub fixed on the shaft, cu spring supports fixed to the hi on the rlru and extended through apertures in the burs under, from the huh and coil springs on ilie spring supports and o. muting lHlI aotuhted clutch member placed loosely on the shnlr, rfln'ged and combined to operate :1 t forth.

2-. A band wheel regulator comprising a rotatable a springhctuoted coneshapvo clutch member on the a wheel huh having an integral muting clutch member a placecl loosely, on the hub and provided with sprln' gage the bars extended from the hub, err

hlned to operate set forth.

GEORGE DIEHL. 

